Klarinet Archive - Posting 000364.txt from 2002/11

From: Nick Simicich <njs@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Attachments to messages to this list....
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:41:35 -0500

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Someone noted that I was sending attachments to this list and that they
thought that the might contain viruses. I found that hard to believe and
double checked, sure enough, (I filter the messages from this list through
demime) that was being triggered for my own posts, so they had attachments
as they were coming back from the klarinet list. People responding to my
posts had no such attachments.

I record all raw messages that I get and keep them for a couple of days. I
looked at my raw message recording. I am sending in single part top level
text/plain, the list software, for whatever reason, cannot recognize my
postings as text/plain such that it can just add the message footer -- it
may be because I use grisoft's excellent free antivirus program and it adds
an x-tag to the parts as it checks them, and it alters my messages to
multipart/mixed to add a text/plain footer at the end. Eeech. The
messages therefore have a text/plain body and a text/plain attachment.

Anyway, someone noted that I was sending an attachment and they thought it
might carry a virus. No. there is no virus carrying attachment.

So, please: Those attachments were not there when I sent the mail,
sorry. And I do not think that anyone has managed to figure out how to
make a text/plain section (unless it contains uuencode or binhex) carry a
virus.

--
If you doubt that magnet therapy works, I put to you this observation: When
refrigerators were first invented, in the 1940s, they were rather
unreliable, but then they became significantly more reliable. The basic
design of the refrigerator did not change, and we all know that quality was
important back then, so I doubt that newer refrigerators are made better.
Refrigerators have become more reliable because of the rise of the
refrigerator magnet.
Nick Simicich - njs@-----.com

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